On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:21:40 +0900, Naoki wrote > Hi all, > > When deleting a kernel or kernel-source packages ( or as I just > did, about 10 at once ) why does RPM feel the need to eat hundreds > of megs of ram, the res popped up to 330mb and the virt was almost > 600 at one stage. The three kernels with source on my machine are 46417 files combined, that would probably put you at around 155000 files to remove (with 10 kernels + source). While I don't have the rpm source here to look at, I'll wager it was keeping some in-memory lists of all those filenames to do whatever sanity checks are necessary to remove the packages + whatever memory those routines needed in order to run. At least that's what I'd think. :-) -- Chris "Build a man a fire and he will be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." -- Unknown
